The history of uncertainty surrounding mammography

November 20, 2009 8:43 AM | 2 Comments | No TrackBacks

As I've written earlier, the reaction from some people that this week's US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations were "surprising" or "coming out of nowhere" are themselves surprising. Anyone - certainly any informed health care consumer and certainly any journalist- should have known that the uncertainties surrounding mammography have been debated for decades.

There's a nice summary of the history by Charles Bankhead of MedPageToday.com.

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Teresa Hagen | November 20, 2009 3:53 PM | Reply

Here is even a better piece about the history of breast cancer and mammography. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/opinion/20aronowitz.html?_r=1

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